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Faculty Research Prize Opportunities

Faculty Research Prize Opportunities

Below is a list of available national Faculty Awards/Prizes for Research in a variety of fields, with approximate deadlines for nominations. Please check individual postings about each award to confirm deadline for any given year. Some awards are “limited submissions” that ask for one candidate per school—these are generally handled by OVPR with earlier nomination deadlines to allow for committee selection.

Gairdner Foundation International Award
The awards are for basic biomedical and clinical research and recognize individuals who have made significant contributions in the biomedical sciences.Deadline: October

Lasker Medical Research Awards(limited submission)
The Lasker Foundation gives three awards for contributions to medical science: the Basic Medical Research Award, the Clinical Medical Research Award, and the Special Achievement in Medical Science Award.Deadline: February

National Medal of Science
This award is presented by the President of the U.S. for contributions to physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences.Deadline: April

Richard Lounsbery Award
This award is given by the by the National Academy of Sciences and the French Académie des Sciences to young French and American scientists who have made scientific achievements in biology and medicine.Deadline: October

Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences
The foundation for the National Institutes of Health recognizes achievement by an early-career scientist in biomedical research.Deadline: September

Pew Biomedical Fellows(limited submission)
This award is for young investigators (within first few years of Assistant Professor) whose research is relevant to the advancement of human health.Deadline: June

Robert Koch Medal and Award
These two awards are offered annually, one for excellence in biomedical research (The Gold Koch Medallion) and one for a major discovery in biomedical science (Koch Prize).Deadline: March

Switzer Prize
This prize honors a scientist who has advanced basic research in the biomedical sciences and has potential to inspire breakthroughs in medicine.Deadline: February

Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
This prize recognizes research that has created new fields of research or advanced novel concepts in the biomedical sciences.Deadline: September

Marion Spencer Fay Award
The Drexel University College of Medicine Institute for Women's Health and Leadership gives this award to a woman physician or scientist who has made exceptional contributions to health care.Deadline: January

William B. Graham Prize for Health Services Research
The Baxter International Foundation and Association of University Programs in Health Administration (AUPHA) give this prize for contributions to health services research, specifically research that impacts the healthcare system healthcare delivery.Deadline: December

National Medal of Science
This award is presented by the President of the U.S. for contributions to physical, biological, mathematical, or engineering sciences.Deadline: April

Richard Lounsbery Award
This award is given by the by the National Academy of Sciences and the French Académie des Sciences to young French and American scientists who have made scientific achievements in biology and medicine.Deadline: October

American Association for Cancer Research (AACR)
Awards for outstanding research in cancer biology include: International Award for Cancer Research, CRI Lloyd J. Old Award in Cancer Immunology, Award for Research Excellence in Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, Waun Ki Hong Award for Outstanding Achievement in Translational and Clinical Cancer Research, and Minorities in Cancer Research.Deadline: August

Léopold Griffuel Awards
The RC Foundation gives this award for basic, translational, or clinical research in oncology.Deadline: July

Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research
This prize recognizes contributions to the understanding and treatment of cancer by young investigators (no more than 45 years old). It is awarded every other year (odd years).Deadline: April

Szent-Györgyi Prize
The National Foundation for Cancer Research (NFCR) gives this award for breakthroughs in the cancer field that have a direct impact on saving people’s lives.Deadline: September

Ross Prize in Molecular Medicine
The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research and Molecular Medicine sponsor this prize for scientists who have advanced the field of molecular medicine.Deadline: October

Developmental Biology

Edwin G. Conklin Medal
The Society for Developmental Biology presents this award to a member of the society who has conducted important and sustained research in developmental biology.Deadline: December

Dale A. Smith Memorial Award
The American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) gives this award for outstanding research on the application of technology to the practice of transfusion medicine or cellular therapies.Deadline: February

Karl Landsteiner Memorial Award
The American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) gives this award for research in transfusion medicine or cellular therapies.Deadline: February

Tibor Greenwalt Memorial Award and Lectureship
The American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) gives this award to an individual who made scientific or clinical contributions to hematology, transfusion medicine or cellular therapies.Deadline: February

Kavli Prize in Neuroscience
The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, The Kavli Foundation (United States), and The Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research sponsor this award for research of the brain and nervous system. (even years)Deadline: December

Gonin Medal
This award is given to an ophthalmologist every four years by the International Council of Ophthalmology.

Bressler Prize in Vision Science
The Lighthouse Guild presents this prize to mid-career vision clinicians or scientists whose leadership, research, and service have advanced understanding of vision loss or eye disease.Deadline: December

International Society for Eye Research Awards and Prizes
The ISER gives out awards every two years (even-numbered years) for contributions to vision and eye research. Prizes include: The Endre A. Balazs Prize for experimental eye research, The Ernst H. Bárány Prize for ocular pharmacology and retinal disease, and The Ludwig von Sallmann Prize for vision research and ophthalmology.Deadline: February

American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Joel Elkes Research Award
This award recognizes a young scientist for outstanding clinical contribution to neuropsychopharmacology. Of particular interest in selecting the awardee are contributions that further our understanding of self-regulatory processes as they affect mental function and behavior in disease and well-being.Deadline: June

The Society of Abdominal Radiology Howard S. Stern Research Grant
This award facilitates visionary research in medical imaging by making funds available for pilot projects on ideas that are intellectually challenging but not yet well enough developed to be suitable for funding by mainstream granting agencies.Deadline: December

Shaw Prize
This prize is for breakthroughs in scientific research whose work has a positive impact on mankind.Deadline: November

Science and Tech

Dale A. Smith Memorial Award
The American Association of Blood Banks (AABB) gives this award for outstanding research on the application of technology to the practice of transfusion medicine or cellular therapies.Deadline: February

American College of Neuropsychopharmacology Joel Elkes Research Award
This award recognizes a young scientist for outstanding clinical contribution to neuropsychopharmacology. Of particular interest in selecting the awardee are contributions that further our understanding of self-regulatory processes as they affect mental function and behavior in disease and well-being.Deadline: June

Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research
This prize recognizes contributions to the understanding and treatment of cancer by young investigators (no more than 45 years old). It is awarded every other year (odd years).Deadline: April

Pew Biomedical Scholars
This award is for young investigators (within first few years of Assistant Professor) whose research is relevant to the advancement of human health.Deadline: June

Richard Lounsbery Award
This award is given by the by the National Academy of Sciences and the French Académie des Sciences to young French and American scientists who have made scientific achievements in biology and medicine.Deadline: October

Marion Spencer Fay Award
The Drexel University College of Medicine Institute for Women's Health and Leadership gives this award to a woman physician or scientist who has made exceptional contributions to health care.
Deadline: January

J. Allyn Taylor International Prize
This prize is awarded by the Robarts Research Institute in a category that changes each year. The 2018 theme is Fundamental and Translational Research in Epilepsy.Deadline: May

Japan Prize
This award is for scientific breakthroughs in a category that changes annually. The 2020 theme Life Science. The 2021 theme is Medical Science. The 2022 theme is Ecology/Environment.Deadline: February